The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-12-09

ana thinks he behodS all of Monroeville.
Half a mile down the railroad is post
office, factory and few dwellings, and
these are all in Monroeville. | walked two
miles from the railroad station over a
lonely road and come to a large, plain,
white painted church and this too is in
Monroeville. So the reader will agree
with. me that the confines of the sparse set
Element Of Monroeville cannot be clearly
defined except by the early settlers. A
more sociable and friendly class of people
cannot be found anywhere.
James Mcfarland, who owns the store
property, is very clever and agreeable
gentleman and true Temperance man.
twenty-five years. lie is a livestock
dealer and sells over five hundred head of
cattle and about three hundred horses
every year
Joseph Dawson, carpenter and builder,
is all the time busy in one place or another
in the country roundabout, the hand
some cottage residence of Franklin Sturr,
near the post Office, being one of Mr. Daw-
sons latest specimens of architecture.
Mr.. Sturr, 1t will be remembered, not long
ago brought to his new home in Monroe
vile one of Harrisonville's fair daughters.
Eight years ago Sturr's chair factory
and saw mill was built and has been run
ming ever since. Step inside. The work
men, ankle deep in sawdust and shavings,
are at their saws, turning lathes and shay
ing machines. If the flying chips from the
lathes do not blind you you can see an
operator convert square sawed stick into
round, smooth and fancy shaped chair
round inside of ten seconds. Great piles of
poplar wood is passing, stick at time, I'M
der shaving cutter and the shavings, re-
sembling punches OF hay, are forked into
the press room where, like hay, it is baled
and shipped to the great cities by the car
load. Down below the moving machinery,
in the boiler pit. is a steam engine of 40
horse power. The refuse of the factory is
all the fuel used.
Ten trains pass here daily. Last night
stepped down to the station to watch the
arrival of the north bound freight engine
drawing behind her train of fifty-three
cars, The crew go on duty late in the
afternoon and work all night One Jolly
fellow tor minute or two perched him.
self on a bag of potatoes waiting to be
loaded and as he let his lantern bangle be-
tween his knees and illuminate his smiling
countenance, he broke forth:
.Let me lay me down TO sleep,
"Boys," he continued, 'sI'll finish the rest
after get back to Bridgeton tomorrow :"
They throw aboard the freight, hurriedly
wave tlieir lanterns above their heads
The engineer in his cab far away up the
track is watching for the signal, sees it and
with spasmodic shrek slowly the great
train starts forward and rattles out of
hearing.
The newest industry here is Mcfarland
& Garrison's creamery and feed mill The
great box churn in the butter department
is in size so vastly beyond what the resi-
dents here imagined it to be that the ques-
ton is asked by very intelligent people,
what the thing is for?'
The timbered section of Monroeyille is
yet the home OF the rabbit and the raceoon,
and hundreds are killed annually by the
sportmen. The champion huntsman in
this region is John Crayer, a small, pale
looking man somewhere in his forties. He
usually bags hundred rabbits in a season,
but this fall he has killed only forty.
Last Saturday night party of coon hum
tiers drove three coons into hollow tree
and after fastening their game in the hole
went home and secured their game on Sum-
day morning.
In the evenings the men gather at the
store to talk of things wise and foolish,
old and new, until the time for the store to
close. Last evening Archie Campbell en-
tertained the loungers by narrating some
ventursome deer hunts in his younger days.
David Leuallen, son of your townsman,
Aaron LeuaIlen, had TO attend court at
Woodbury. this week. 1t seems that an old
man in this neighborhood who bankers
after all the earth has instituted a suit
against David for several thousand dollars
and his whole farm. They tell me that
this avaricious old gentleman is always
troubling somebody with law suit.
But must conclude. for who outside OF
this little settlement desires or cares to
know what is going on in Monroeville.
Dec. s, 'S7, WANDERER.